Halter fitting



Feb. 11, 1930. N. F. GR EEN HALTER FITTING Filed Oct. 30,l928

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Patented Feb. 11, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- NATHAN FORDHAM GREEN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO ORVILLE C. JOHNSON, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS HALTER FITTING Application filed October 30, 1928. Serial No. 316,050.

This invention relates to a fitting for halters and more particularly to such a fitting having the characteristic of a combined fastener wherein two loops of rope material may be joined.

The object of the invention is to provide a fitting for halters made of a single piece of cast material without the necessity of any bending operations and another object of the invention is to provide a fitting of this type which can be easily assembled on a rope halter and which will have the combined functions of loop forming and rope adjusting device. A further object of the invention is the provision of a fitting, easy of assembling and having the capability of permitting adj ustment of two loops.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear in the following description and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts throughout the several figures of the drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective of the head of a horse on which a halter is shown having the fitting of this invention applied thereto, Figure 2 is an enlarged plan view similar to the showing of the fitting in Figure 1, and Figure 8 is a vertical section.

The halter 10 shown in Figure 1 is applied to the head of an animal and is made of rope and is provided with suitable fittings throughout whereby it may be adjusted to fit the head of the animal, it being understood that rope halters or halters made of other material are inefficient and unsafe unless they do fit the animal in such a way that certain parts of the head are pressed by the halter sections to prevent unruliness in the animal. One of the fittings on such a halter is that shown in Figure 1 and indicated by the numeral 11. It will be seen that the neck section 12 of the halter is composed of two strands of rope looped at 13 and held firmly against. sliding movement at said loop by the fitting 11 as will hereinafter be explained. It will also be noted that the cheek section 14 and the jaw section 15 of the-halter are formed in one piece with a loop at 16, said loop being designed to be held by the fitting 11 as will hereinafter be described. It is this fitting 11 which enables the removal of the halter from the head of the animal by removing the loop 13 entirely from the fitting, while the loop 16 is the means whereby the fitting is retained upon the halter in proper position at all times.

Referring now to Figures 2 and 3, the fitting 11 is shown as provided with a base section 17 which has the general shape of a V, the legs of which are joined by the bar 18 and the slightly outward-projecting connecting sections 19. At 20 there is a cross bar from which projects a hook 21, the bill of which lies spaced from the base 17. The rope loop 13 is passed through the eye 22 formed by the bar 18 and the cross bar 20 and over the hook 21 so that the bend of said loop will lie in the bight of said hook.

The forming of this end of the fitting with a single hook outstanding from a wide base precludes the possibility of injury to an ani mal especially where the halter is fitted properly, because the base 17 lies against the head of the animal with the hook outwardly and there is no section of the halter tending to overturn the fitting. There is'an additional safeguard in having a single hook rather than a pair of hooks since in the use of halters by a careless hostler the loop might be engaged with oneof the hooks only, with the resultant tendency of the other hook to pierce the animals flesh in subsequent use.

It will be appreciated that this loop-f0rming element is int-ended to permit of the removal of the halter from the animals head. This is desirable rather than the lower loop being utilized for this purpose because the head section 12 is a double'strand with no tendency to alter in size, whereas the loop 16 composes the cheek section 14 and the jaw section 15 which are of different lengths and therefore the loop 16 mustbemaintained as any slipping of the loop 16 on the fitting would change the relative lengths of these two sections, resulting in a misfitted halter.

The base 17 at its lower portion is provided A with a shank 23 projecting outwardly from the base and at the end of this shank an eye 24 is formed which eye projects backwardly toward the plane of the base plate with its end bar 25 lying in the plane of the base 17 This eye is relatively smaller than the eye 22 for the reason that it is not intended that the looped portion of the rope shall be passed through that eye but rather that the loop 16 shall be formed by first passing the strand 1 through and then passing the end of the rope back through the eye. The bend in the loop lies against the shank 23.

It will be appreciated that the loop thus formed will not slip but will be securely held at any point where it may be adjusted and this will maintain the proper lengths for the cheek and jaw sections of the halter. It will also maintain the fastener on the halter in the proper place. However, it enables the halter to be adjusted because by enlarging the loop sufliciently the two strands may be worked through the eye 24.

It is obvious that the specific features of the two loop-forming ends of this refined fastenercoope-rate to produce a fitting very beneficial in a halter where adjustability of two loops is demanded and where easy removal is demanded in one of the loops from the fitting, and a relatively'difi lcult adjustment in the other loop. The fitting also eliminates the necessity of a loop-forming sleeve combining as it does both the hook and the loop-forming elements. The fitting may be made in one piece without the necessity of any bending operations and accomplishes a very easy assembling of the halter.

\Vhat is claimed is: 1. In a harness fitting, a body section having an eye and a hook at one end thereof associated to constitute a rope loop former, from 4 0 which the loop may be easily disengaged, and having at the opposite end of the body an eye and a shank adapted to form and securely hold a second rope loop. i

2. In a harness fitting, a body section hav- & ing an eye at one end thereof, a hook projecting from said eye toward the opposite end of the fitting, said eye being relatively wide to permit of the insertion of a rope loop for engagement with said book, a shank projecting from the opposite end of the body, and having a second eye, said second eye being relatively V I narrow to'accommodate two strands of rope, the loop of which is adapted to encircle the shank; whereby a second rope loop is securely attached to and held by said fitting.

3. The fitting of claim 2 in which theplanes of the eyes lie at an angle to that of the body section. I

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature. 3? NATHAN FORDHAM GREEN. 

